Birthdays: Salvador Dali', Jean
Jerome, Chang and Eng Bunker-the original Siamese Twins-1811, Baron Munchausen,
Irving Berlin, King Oliver, Martha Graham, Dr Richard Fenyman, Mort Sahl,
Foster Brooks, Denver Pyle, Henry Morgenthau, Doug McClure, Randy Quaid,
Natasha Richardson, Rev Louis Farrakhan, Albert Hurter,
Margaret Kerry the
model for Walt Disney’s Tinkerbell is 88
1956 - Pinky Lee Show last airs on
NBC-TV.
1968 - actor Richard Harris
attempted a singing career, releasing the song "MacArthur Park".
1972 -On the Dick Cavett talk show
Beatle and peace activist John Lennon said his phone had been tapped by FBI. It
turns out it he was, but at the time we all thought he was just paranoid from
too many drugs.
1981- The musical play CATS opened
in London.
1981- Bob Marley died of brain
cancer at age 36. Marley and his group the Wailers, made Jamaican Reggae
mainstream in pop music.
1992 - Carlos “ Danny” Herrera,
bartender inventor of the Margarita, died at age 90- Margarita was supposedly
named for Hollywood actress Margaret Sullivan who wanted to drink tequila and
lime with the guys but couldn’t tolerate the strong taste. Herrera mixed the
tequila and lime juice into an iced cocktail and put the salt along the rim. He
mixed a batch whenever he heard the actress was in Tijuana, writing on the
bottle- For Little Margaret- Por Margarita.
1997-
Deep Blue, a computer developed at IBM, defeated top world chess champion
Gennady Kasparov.
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